I recently read the book "Sold," by Patricia McCormick. Throughout the story, the main character Lakshmi gains and loses trust in people and situations very easily. She will begin to trust someone very quickly after she meets them, but will also stop trusting them seemingly out of nowhere.

In the book, Lakshmi places all of her trust in "Uncle Husband" almost immediately. She barely knows him, but automatically assumes that he will keep her safe and is scared when she has to be separated from him. While she is staying in the "Happiness House," she repeatedly says that she missed him and is scared without him, even though he wasn't nice to her at all and she barely knew him. She even refers to him as "A man who gives out sweets and slaps with the same hand." She probably trusted him so easily because she knew that if she didn't, she wouldn't have anyone left to trust.

In the book, Lakshmi didn't trust "the boy with the tea" for a very long time. Every day, he would come to the "Happiness House," selling tea to all of the girls. Lakshmi refused to buy tea each day, since she was saving her money so she could go home, but the boy always gave her a cup of tea anyway. He never asks for anything in return, and its not until he gets fired from his job for giving away free tea and he stops coming the the "Happiness House" that she realizes how good of a friend he was to her, and that she never even knew his name. She didn't talk to him for so long, and by the time she realized that they were friends, it was too late.

Throughout the story, Lakshmi trusts some people too easily, and others not enough. She trusts some people because she knows that without them, she'll have no way to feel safe. She doesn't trust other people because she knows that she has misplaced her trust in people before. A lot of the time, she trusts the wrong people and doesn't trust people she should've trusted.